The Origins of Overkill

Rosenberg, David

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“…These studies revealed the strong counterforce bias of U.S. strategic doctrine and reinforced the conclusion that limited nuclear exchanges would be difficult if not impossible to control (Rosenberg, 1979(Rosenberg, , 1983Friedberg, 1980;Ball, 1981;Schilling, 1981;Ball and Richelson, 1986;Sagan, 1989). In short, where scholarship in the Golden Age was necessarily abstract and "data-free," the study of nuclear weapons policy during the renaissance rested on a much firmer base of empirical support.…”

Section: New Developments In Security Studiesmentioning

confidence: 76%

The Renaissance of Security Studies

Walt

1991

International Studies Quarterly

652

171

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Section: New Developments In Security Studiesmentioning

confidence: 76%

The Renaissance of Security Studies

Walt

1991

International Studies Quarterly

652

171

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“…Amid the stockpiling of nuclear weapons (Rosenberg, 1983) and cold war posturing for a nuclear war (e.g., Kissinger, 1957), President Eisenhower pursued peaceful alternatives to engage the Soviet Union in cooperative dialogues. He proposed Open Skies in 1955 (Eisenhower, 1955), and when that strategy was unsuccessful, he promoted the Freedom of Space and the launch of scientific satellites during the IGY (National Security Council, 1955a).…”

Section: Balancing Interests Globallymentioning

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President Eisenhower, the Antarctic Treaty, and the Origin of International Spaces

Berkman

2011

Science Diplomacy : Science, Antarctica, and the Governance of International Spaces

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“…Extremely offensive strategy is perhaps best illustrated by the development of the Strategic Air Command in the late 1940s and in the 1950s. SACs aircraft inventory, weapons, and planning were gradually changed from the capability to carry out a prolonged air offensive in support of other war efforts to a capability to deliver a one-sortie devastating strike on the Soviet Union and its allies (Rosenberg 1981(Rosenberg , 1983). 3.…”

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Offensive versus Defensive: Military Strategy and Alternative Defence

Agrell

1987

Journal of Peace Research

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Since the early 1980s the concept of non-offensive defence has gained considerable support in peace movements as well as among peace researchers in Western Europe. The debate has, however, become a 'for' and 'against' argument, while fundamental analytical questions have been left aside. This article deals with the nature of the premises for the implementation of defence policy alternatives based on specific technologies with assumed political and strategic effects. The distinction between offensive and defensive appears, in a historical perspective, as far more complex than assumed in the current debate. The concept of non-offensive defence presupposes that these distinctions can be handled through conscious and rational choices. Research in the interaction between technological change and military strategy and in the determining factors for the development of military technology and weapons systems provides very little support for such a conclusion. The concept of non-offensive defence, as presently developed, therefore appears as an attempted short-cut past the basic problems involved in the control of the development of military technology, and the debate therefore runs the risk of ending as just another 'single-weapon concept', soon to be forgotten.

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The Origins of Overkill

Cited by 10 publications

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The Renaissance of Security Studies

The Renaissance of Security Studies

President Eisenhower, the Antarctic Treaty, and the Origin of International Spaces

Offensive versus Defensive: Military Strategy and Alternative Defence

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